Initial management of acute medical patients : a guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners

Initial management of acute medical patients : a guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners /

"Initial Management of Acute Medical Patients is a clinically focused, practical and contemporary guide for assessing and managing patients with acute medical conditions. Suitable for all nurses and healthcare practitioners in medical assessment units and medical wards, as well as A & E sta...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Wood, Ian, 1962-, Garner, Michelle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Critical care medicine > Methods.
Emergency nursing > Methods.
Nursing assessment > Methods.
Triage (Medicine) > Methods.
Critical care medicine.
Emergency nursing > Methodology.
Triage (Medicine)
Critical Care > methods
Acute Disease > nursing
Triage > methods
Emergency Nursing > methods
Nursing Assessment > methods
Critical Care
Triage
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Initial assessment of the acute medical patient
  • Vulnerable groups
  • Sudden death
  • Cardiac arrest
  • Shock
  • Altered consciousness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Chest pain
  • Abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Extremity pain and swelling.

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